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EATON, Lucien, lawj-er, was born in Den- mark, N.Y., Sept. 24, 1S81. He was gi-aduated fx-om Iowa college in 1855 and from Harvard law school in 1857, being admitted to the bar of Mas- sachusetts the same year. He removed to St. Louis, Mo., in 1858 and began practice. Early in 1861 he entered the Union army and was commis- sioned captain in 1863. On July 25, 1864, he was appointed judge advocate for the department of Missouri, with the rank of major, acting as a court of appeal from the decisions of the various military courts and commissions, having head- quarters at St. Louis, Mo. In 1867 he was ap- pointed register in bankruptcy for the eastern federal judicial district of Missouri, and held the position for many years. He was police commis- sioner for St. Louis county, 1866-90, and L'nited States commissioner, 1868-90. On Jan. 2, 1875, he was made special U.S. commissioner of Ala- bama claims. He was admitted to practice in the United States supreme court, Feb. 26, 1875, and in 1876 was retained as one of the counsel for the government in the whiskey ring trials. He edited and managed the Southern Law Eevieic, which later absorbed the Western Jurist and the American Law Seview, taking the name of the latter. He i-eceived the degree of A.M. from the University of Iowa in 1865. He died at Boerne, Texas, March 7, 1890.

EATON, Samuel John Mills, clergyman, was born in Fairview, Pa., April 15, 1820; son of the Rev. Johnston and Eliza (Canon) Eaton. He was graduated from Jefferson college in 1845 and from the Western theological seminary in 1848, and was licensed to preach, March 16, 1848, by the presbytery of Erie. He was pastor at Mt. Pleasant, Pa., 1848-55; at Franklin, Pa., 1848-82, and in 1871 travelled in Europe, Egypt, Palestine and Greece. In 1879 he was chosen a trustee of Washington and Jefferson college, and in 1880 became a director of Western theological semi- nary. He was married, Nov. 5, 1850, to Clara T., daughter of John W. Howe, a representative from Pennsylvania in the 31st and 32d congresses. He received the degree of D.D. from Washington and Jefferson college in 1869. He published : Pe- troleum (1866); History of the Presbytery of Erie (1868) ; Histoi-y of Venango County, Pa. (1876) ; Lakeside (1880) ; Memorial of Cyrus Dickson, D.D. (1883) ; Jerusalem (1884) ; Palestine (1885) ; and 3Iemorial of Robert Lamberton (1886). He died at Franklin, Pa.. July 16. 1889.

EATON, Thomas Treadwell, clergyman, was bom in Murfi-eesboro, Tenu., Nov. 16, 1845; son of Joseph Haywood and Ester Mary (Treadwell) Eaton. He was educated at Union university, Tenn., Madison imiversity, N.Y., and at Wash- ington college, Va., and was graduated from the last named institution in 1867. He was professor

of mathematics at Union university, 1867-73, and assistant professor of mathematics at Washington and Lee university, 1866-67. In connection with his professorship at Murf reesboro he was pastor of the Baptist church at Lebanon, Tenn., where he remained, 1870-72. He was pastor at Chatta- nooga, Tenn., 1872-75, at Petersburg, Va., 1875- 81, and at Louisville, Ky., from 1881. In 1870-71 he was editor of the Christian Herald. He re- ceived the honorary degree of D.D. from Wash- ington and Lee university in 1878 and that of LL.D. from Southwestern Baptist university, Jackson, Tenn., in 1889. He published, besides many contributions to pei-iodical literature, The Angels (1874) ; Talks to Children (1887) ; Talks on Getting Married (1891); Faith of Baptists (1896), and various pamphlets. After 1887 in addition to his pastorate, he was editor of the Western Eecorder, established in 1825.

EATON, William, soldier, was born in Wood- stock, Conn., Feb. 23, 1764; son of Nathaniel and Sarah Eaton ; grandson of Nathaniel Eaton ; and great-grandson of Thomas and Esther (Parry) Eaton. He removed to Marshfield, Mass., in 1774 and in 1780 enlisted in the American army. He was promoted sergeant and was mustered out in 1783. He was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1790, served as clerk of the Massachusetts house of delegates, 1791-97, was appointed U.S. consul to Tunis by President Adams in 1797 and reached that place in March, 1799, where he upheld the rights of the United States in the matters of tribute money and in securing immunity from the piratical Tunisans. On returning to the United States in 1803 he was appointed U.S. naval agent to the Barbary States by President Jefferson and accompanied the naval fleet to the Mediterranean in 1804. Arriving at Tripoli he found that the pasha Hamet had been deposed by his brother, and first obtaining the sanction of the U.S. govei-nment and the co-operation of the U.S. navA-, he undertook to reinstate him, first bringing him from Egypt whither he had fled for safetj-. He headed 500 men, mostly Arabs, and marched 600 miles across the Lybian desert to Derne and thence to Bomba, where the Argus and the Hornet under Hull were in waiting. On April 27, 1805, they opened fire upon the fortifica- tions of the town, drove the Tripolitans from their guns, and the land forces under Eaton carried the works by storm. Commodore Hull then raised the U.S. flag over the captured forti- fications and turned the guns on the town. In the assault Eaton was severely wounded, but the town was occupied by his forces and he kept up sharp skirmishes with the enemy for several weeks. He then prepared to fall upon Tripoli by a rapid march, when news of a negotiation of peace made by U.S. Consul-general Lear with the